Phil Clinton:*sigh* I know I'm setting myself up for a beating here, but what is wrong with hotmail? I have my n­ame­l­i­a­m­t­oh­co­m because my nameli­amg­com isn't available. Seems to work just fine for me.

Nothing really, but it takes a long while for a history of mediocrity to be forgotten

Phil Clinton:*sigh* I know I'm setting myself up for a beating here, but what is wrong with hotmail? I have my name[[nospam-﹫-backwards] image 7x13]liamtoh[* image 7x13]com because my name[[nospam-﹫-backwards] image 7x13]liamg[* image 7x13]com isn't available. Seems to work just fine for me.

Hotmail has notoriously bad security issues. And this is the minister who is in charged of beefing up their govt communications security.

Phil Clinton:*sigh* I know I'm setting myself up for a beating here, but what is wrong with hotmail? I have my n­amel­iamtohcom because my nam­el­ia­m­gc­o­m isn't available. Seems to work just fine for me.

I don't know about anyone else's reasons, but it's not remotely secure. It can be broken into by anyone with access to your facebook page, if they care enough.

For most people, that isn't an issue, no one cares what's in your hotmail. For someone with high-level access to sensitive international communications, however, hotmail can be a really juicy target.

This whole article is pretty much why it was rebranded to Outlook.com by Microsoft.

/I use Gmail as my primary, but I still have a hotmaill.com email address that I created back in 1996 before it was owned by Microsoft. I think I still have some emails from my first purchases on Amazon and Newegg filed away in there somewhere.

Hey, General Petraeus used gmail (or apparently did so when he got busted), as do I, so double win for gmail users!!!!Generals and snarky Farkers like me, who are undoubtedly made of steel and living in a floating castle of gold use it, so go with the winning team!

Phil Clinton:*sigh* I know I'm setting myself up for a beating here, but what is wrong with hotmail? I have my name[[nospam-﹫-backwards] image 7x13]liamtoh[* image 7x13]com because my name[[nospam-﹫-backwards] image 7x13]liamg[* image 7x13]com isn't available. Seems to work just fine for me.

The Microsofit web interface is really nice. It has been for years.

As the first popular free email service it got a bad rep because all the dirtballs used it.

*sigh* I know I'm setting myself up for a beating here, but what is wrong with hotmail? I have my name[nospam-﹫-backwards]liamtoh*com because my name[nospam-﹫-backwards]liamg*com isn't available. Seems to work just fine for me.

Nothing at all wrong with it, other than perception and snobbery. It's not like Gmail actually does anything better. I have half a dozen hotmail accounts.

Resident Muslim:

So the Indian Minister outsourced his IT requirement to the US?!

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India outsources their travel visas to a US company. I wanted so much to call their support line just so I could find out if the phone was answered by some guy with a heavy Texan drawl claiming he was Ramesh from Dehli.

jaytkay:apoptotic: The newly elected mayor of Edmonton wants to (and has started to) move all municipal staff and departments from the current @edmonton.ca platform to GMail/GoogleApps.

They'll still keep the @edmonton.ca domain, including for their email.

Theyr'e simply outsourcing their IT like tons of other businesses and government agencies.

The problem is that now City communications will be housed not in Canadian servers but in the US and subject to US law.

When the University of Alberta moved to Google, the province's information and privacy commissioner had this to say: "Users of the University email system must be informed that their emails will reside in a foreign jurisdiction and will be subject to the laws of that jurisdiction, such as in this case, the USA Patriot Act. Individuals can then make an informed decision about what kind of information they will transmit through email. The University has agreed to inform the student body and employees that it won't be able to guarantee protection against possible disclosure of emails residing in the United States."

*sigh* I know I'm setting myself up for a beating here, but what is wrong with hotmail? I have my name[nospam-﹫-backwards]liamtoh*com because my name[nospam-﹫-backwards]liamg*com isn't available. Seems to work just fine for me.

Nothing at all wrong with it, other than perception and snobbery. It's not like Gmail actually does anything better. I have half a dozen hotmail accounts.

Resident Muslim:

So the Indian Minister outsourced his IT requirement to the US?!

/HaHa.jpg

India outsources their travel visas to a US company. I wanted so much to call their support line just so I could find out if the phone was answered by some guy with a heavy Texan drawl claiming he was Ramesh from Dehli.